all usage, all hours · plus $4.90 per month · covers delivery only — delivery alone. Supply is set by market price with no filed figure, so a real bill is higher. NOT comparable to a bundled rate
effective2026-09-30
transcribed2026-10-01
today2026-11-13
Monthly delivery charge
Usage
$ per month
500 kWh
$37.57
1,000 kWh
$70.23
2,000 kWh
$135.57
Computed from the rates on this page at 30.4 days a month. The same arithmetic is checked against the utility's own published typical bill on every build. Delivery only. Supply is bought separately and is not included, so a full bill is higher than this.
Before taxes, franchise fees and any local surcharge.
Provenance
reconciled to a published total
sourceCenterPoint Energy Houston Electric Tariff for Retail Delivery Service, 6.1.1.1.1 Residential Service, Sheet 6.1, Revision 22nd, with thirteen rider sheets
verifiedTranscribed from the utility's filed sheetCenterPoint Energy Houston Electric Tariff for Retail Delivery Service, 6.1.1.1.1 Residential Service, Sheet 6.1, Revision 22nd, with thirteen rider sheets
verifiedEffective date on the sheet: 2026-09-30
verifiedReconciles to a total the utility published itselfEXACT AS OF 1 SEPTEMBER; THE 30 SEPTEMBER RATE HAS NO PUBLISHED TOTAL YET. The PUCT's per-utility rate report for CenterPoint publishes $2.11 customer, $2.79 metering, $0.064130/kWh and average bills of $36.97 / $69.03 /
verifiedSource document checked daily for changes
approximateThis is not a whole billdelivery only — delivery alone. Supply is set by market price with no filed figure, so a real bill is higher. NOT comparable to a bundled rate
excludedTaxes, franchise fees and local surchargesJurisdiction-specific, so they are deliberately not encoded. A bill will be higher than this figure by that amount.
Energy rates
Period
Applies to
$/kWh
all hours, all months (delivery is flat)
all usage
$0.06533
What this figure does and does not include
Transcription notes recorded when this tariff was encoded, including anything deliberately left out.
DELIVERY ONLY. Texas is deregulated, so CenterPoint sells no energy: this is the wires charge every customer in the Houston territory pays whichever retailer they buy from. It is not a bill on its own and must not be compared with a bundled rate.
THE ALL-IN DELIVERY RATE IS $4.90 A MONTH PLUS 6.5333c/kWh: a $2.11 customer charge, a $2.79 metering charge, a 2.3240c distribution system charge, a transmission system charge of exactly zero, and thirteen rider components netting 4.2093c.
RIDER DCRF ROSE ON 30 SEPTEMBER 2026, 0.4934c to 0.6137c/kWh, as an INTERIM rate pending a final order in PUCT Docket No. 59981 - so it can move again, either way, when that order lands. All-in delivery goes 6.4130c to 6.5333c, about $1.20 a month at 1,000 kWh. The PUCT has not yet published a total for this vintage.
RECONCILED EXACTLY, TWICE, AS OF 1 SEPTEMBER. The PUCT rate report publishes 6.4130c/kWh and average bills of $36.97 / $69.03 / $133.16 at 500 / 1,000 / 2,000 kWh; these components, with September's DCRF, reproduce all four. Putting the five figures that have moved since back to their prior values reproduces the report the PUCT published for 1 August - 5.1461c and its three bills - which is the check that the component list is complete rather than a sum that lands once.
FOUR RIDERS MOVED ON 1 SEPTEMBER 2026 and Rider TCRF is most of it, 1.6173c to 3.0812c. Schedule SRC II fell, Rider ADFITC II's credit shrank and Rider DCRF eased a hundredth of a cent. Together they take the all-in delivery rate from 5.1461c to 6.5333c, about $13.87 a month at 1,000 kWh. Every other component is unchanged, the four charges on the residential rate sheet included.
THIRTEEN COMPONENTS, FOUND BY READING ALL 292 PAGES rather than by following the rate sheet's list. Two of them - Rider TC5 Refund and Rider RRC - are not named on the residential sheet at all, and three are credits. Oncor's lesson applies here too: a rate schedule's list of riders is only as current as the sheet carrying it.
TWO STORM SECURITIZATIONS RUN AT ONCE. Schedule SRC II recovers the June 5 2025 storm and SRC III the October 23 2025 storm, at 0.1110c and 0.2848c respectively. They are separate schedules with separate allocation factors, both live, and together they are 0.40c/kWh - eight per cent of the delivery rate.
THE MUNICIPAL ACCOUNT FRANCHISE CREDIT IS NOT APPLIED. The residential sheet carries a credit of 0.1767c/kWh immediately beside the charges, but it is available only to municipal accounts inside a municipality that levies a franchise fee on the company and has signed a franchise agreement. A household is not eligible. Netting it off would understate every residential bill.
THREE COMPONENTS ARE CREDITS: ADFITC II and ADFITC III return accumulated deferred federal income tax, and Rider TC5 Refund returns transition charges. Together they are -0.0883c/kWh. Two more, Rider IRA and Rider RRC, are live mechanisms currently set to zero and are carried at zero rather than dropped - RRC runs until $406,031.96 has been refunded, so it is dormant rather than finished.
WATCHED TWICE: THE TARIFF BOOK AND THE RATES PAGE. Until 25 September 2026 the book was reachable only behind a ?v= cache buster that changed with the document, so only the rates page could be watched, through the hash in its served HTML. CenterPoint has since dropped the cache buster, and the bare URL serves the current book, so the book itself is watched too. The page stays watched in case the cache buster returns.
THE RECONCILIATION TARGET IS FETCHED DAILY. The PUCT's rate report was hand-checked until 22 September 2026, because ftp.puc.texas.gov sent an incomplete certificate chain; the server now sends the full chain, and the report is watched like any other source.
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